Speak Out!!!
The Tax Club:
Complaints regarding "The Tax Club" have been taken from actual stories written
by unhappy people. Much of the information was reprinted from stories located in
"Google!"
March 27, 2007 - The Tax Club opinion - Income Tax:
The Tax Club or Tax Advantage or whatever they are called is a scam.
I trust the following scenario recaps what most people encountered at recent
Stores On Line marketing seminars. A Tax Club representative, who was quick to
point out that Tax Club was not affiliated with Stores On Line, touted a CD tool that
would be invaluable to our new Internet business. Naturally it was a one time
offer? ?Today and Today only? For only $199.00.
Among other things we were verbally promised 1) a review of our previous two
years taxes. 2) a free tax consultation, 3) invaluable tax information contained on
the CD, 4) preparation for our current year taxes, and 5) an accessible website for
tax assistance 24/7.
Here's what we got: 1) The?Invaluable tax information? Contained on the CD was
insulting. Information was so glossed over and basic that my 15 year old grandson
could have written it. The same (more and better) information could be obtained
at no cost from free IRS pamphlets, AARP, Barnes & Noble, public library, or Good
Housekeeping magazine. Information was not pertinent. Knowing how to use
rental property as a tax break had nothing to do with running a product based
website. I tried to print the information from the CD and was unable to do so even
though there is a cute little button that says ? Print? 2) We waited months to be
contacted for our ?Free tax consultation? Which was cancelled and rescheduled
several times. When the big consultation occurred it turned out to be yet another
sales pitch: an investment of ?Only? $2,000 for a Nevada based tax service and S
Corp set up at that time, so the consultation suddenly ended. Eight months later
we received another call: another sales pitch for an unbelievably high
?Membership & monthly fees?. 3) We did not receive a review of our taxes, and
4) When my husband asked about the free tax service, the subject was nicely
evaded. In short, we did not purchase this service (we fell off the turnip truck
once and that was enough).
We were writing the Tax Club for a refund for their bogus CD. When reviewing the
tax Club website (lol), guess what you find? NOTHING! It cannot be accessed
unless you are apparently a member! There is no phone number, no address, no
contact. That makes writing a formal letter difficult. Scary.
Customer who purchased this CD were the victims of misrepresentation; untrue
representation or omissions of material and facts relating to the investment.
Stores On Line denies any affiliation with the Tax Club, yet the Tax Club is a part of
their seminar: Stores On Line told my husband that the Tax Club was part of the
seminar and would not issue a refund. The speaker clearly told us the Tax Club
was not part of Stores on Line. Are they an affiliate, or not? Is not Stores On Line
responsible for the content of their affiliations? The Tax Club is headquartered
on the?60th Floor of the Empire State Building?. Guess What? They have two
offices in UTAH, one in Orem and that is the same city where Stores On Line is
located.
$199.00 is a drop in the bucket compared to some folks who lost thousands. They
were sold an empty bottle of snake oil and we want our money back. We will
report this company to the Attorney General in every state in the Union and post
to any and all blogs we can find. People need to know the snake oil doesn't work.
Paul
Omaha, Nebraska
U.S.A.
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Response to the above:
Thanks guys I feel ripped off as well. Although I have stuck with them 2 years
paying $50. a month, just recently they gave me wrong advice on a tax situation.
Incompetent!
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Failure to do my taxes: - The Tax Club complaint by Schnu
I had hoped to create my own company so I wanted tax advice for it... Enter The
Tax Club. Yea, that Joe guy, making money. Scam, scam, scam. One company
makes money by feeding leads to the next company, and so on down the line. I
had hoped to have my company up and running but that did not happen. It caused
me to file for an extension. As that deadline neared, I sent them my taxes as they
had been so simple for many years. ASendminute job for any competent
professional. The keyword here is competent. I would call, they would echo what
was already displayed on their pitiful web site. I had already complained about the
site that gave no further information of any kind of progress with the submission
and deadline drawing near. The idiot on the phone wanted to argue with me about
the web site and my complaint. I hung up. The Friday before the deadline I called
again to find out that they needed more information!!! I tried to find that out for
weeks before! "do you have everything?"
The deadline came and went and no tax forms. They showed up weeks later.
Useless. I filed my simple forms by myself. I made several calls about getting a
refund and I'll admit that I dragged my feet. However, we agreed that I would get a
refund fr\orm, which I also had to doggedly call in order to get emailed to me. I
filled it out and mailed it in. Nothing nothing noting, as usual. Again I called to
learn that they could not refund to my credit card. It had been too long and their
system didn't allow it. FINE! Send me a check. I gave them a deadline since it was
not happening. April 18, 2008 had passed and so now I forwarded a letter to them
with small claims court form attached. I filed on Monday. Cinco DeMayo. They
WILL give me back my money for failure to perform as contractually agreed. Class
action suit? Count me in!! Sue - Chicago.
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Incompetency at it's worst! The Tax Club...May 19, 2008:
I had some work done for me by a Lawyer's association. A few days after I was
through doing business with them, I received a call from The Tax Club and they
kept on calling until I bit. They withdrew by electronic transfer from my personal
checking account, the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00). They had told me
that they would save me a thousand dollars. They sure did. They stole if from me.
They are not honest. They did a tax return for me in 2006 and sent it to me for
filing six months later. When I read the tax return it was full of errors and
inconsistencies. I had given them a 1099 which had to be sent to the IRS with the
tax return, but they lost it. Then to add insult to injury they started to deduct from
my checking account the sum of sixty nine dollars ($69,00) each month for a
service charge. I ended up doing the tax return myself and just sent it in this past
May 16th, 2008 I sent an E-Mail to the Attorney General of the United States with
my complaint about The Tax Club. Finally, to make matters worst, my checking
account was subjected to identity theft. I had to change my checking account and
abtain a completely new account number, and of course, a new pass.word.
How could I have been so stupid. Whenever I had an income tax accountant make
out my tax returns, it never cost me what the Tax Club charged me. But, because
of the tardiness in doing the return, I redid it myself, and wonder what horrors the
IRS might have in store for me. They have a tax advocate (if you qualify); and a
tax consultant (if you qualify). That "If you Qualify" phrase always gets to me; it
sounds like another scam....
Johannes, North Bergen, NJ...
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The Tax Club Complaint by Bbware:
The tax Club located on the 60th floor in the Empire State Building is a complete
scam. If you go on legalzoom or fileinc websites and set up a corporation. At the
very end you will find an option which asks if you want to set up a free tax
consultation. If you select this, your information will be forwarded to the Tax Club
where a guy named Bert Seither will call you. When you think this is for a tax
consultation, it is not. Bert Seither will give you some basic idea about a
corporate tax structure then will want to charge you $1000 dollars for the tax club
services. That's what happened to me. He tries to sell you something you don't
need. Stick to your CPA and Tell Bert at the Tax Club to shove it up you know
where.
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The Tax Club - horrible!!
The Tax Club never does your taxes on time. Their customer service is poor.
Their accountants are idiots. Worst mistake I ever made. They do not inform you
on time if you owe money to the IRS or not. You could almost never get an
appointment with them during the busy tax season (between Feb and April)..
That's when you need them the most. It's such a scam. They use regular software
(the same ones you buy at the your nearby retail stores- turbo-tax, Tax-cut,
quicken) to do your taxes. What a rip-off.... It is horrible!
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The Tax Club-Stay Away!!!!
The Tax Club complaint by Jstandish:
We joined the Tax Club in2005 because we had a real estate investing business
and we were told that this was the best company to go through to make sure our
taxes were handled correctly and that we got the most money back. The first two
years they did our taxes (2005 and 2006) we felt re received good service and our
taxes were done quickly and efficiently. (Even though that VTO is a joke and not
any different from turbo tax that would have saved us hundreds of dollars and
almost 2 months waiting for taxes to be done-not to mentin that we had
information that didn't fit anywhere there!)
This year was a joke. We submitted our VTO before the deadline of February 29,
but it still took them until April 15 to file our taxes. Many emails and calls went
unanswered, and I'm truly not sure our taxes were done correctly. I have no
confidence in the person who completed them.
I cancelled our membership in April by email, but received no confirmation from
them. None. Then when I called today to confirm it was cancelled and talk about
getting a refund of the past two months since they should have filed in early
March and not April, they basically told me they issue no refunds and there was
nothing they could do. This was after she told me I should just be glad they got
done by the deadline because so many others didn't! What the heck??? I told her
it wasn't my problem if they're over worked and under staffed. Stay away from the
Tax Club! We spent $600 a year on membership fees and could have gone
somewhere else for much less!!
Comment: $600 a year. I paid $1000. and got zilch!!! per Johannes.
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The Tax Club - "a Scam!"
Posted: 2008-05-04 14:51:56 by Harrison:
The Tax Club located on the 60th floor in the Empire State Building is a complete
scam. If you go on legalzoom or fileinc websites and set up a corporation. At the
very end you will find an option which asks if you want to set up a free tax
consultation. If you select this, your information turns into something else, and
you end up with less money!!!.
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The Tax Club! Stay away from them:
Posted: 2008-04-24 03:14:26 by Wayne.
The worst business decision I ever made. From my esperience, they are a
frustrating no service organization (I use "organization" with reservation).
After signing I received calls to set up appointments, supposedly with The Tax
Club staff to review busines tax issues... The frustration that followed was more
then I care to comprehend!.
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Attention Readers!!!
Save yourself time and money before choosing a program or a product.
Check product review and find out what works and what doesn't:
"Give a man a fish and you feel him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you feel him for a lifetime..."
Old Chinese Proverb!
The Top 10 Home-Based Business/Work-at-Home Scams!!!!!
Note: These scams are not ranked by dollars lost or people
scammed. In fact, there's nothing scientific about the list. It's just
the ten home-based business scams we find the most disturbing!
10. Craft Assembly:
This scam encourages you to assemble toys, dolls, or other craft projects at home
with the promise of high per-piece rates. All you have to do s pay a fee up-front
for the starter kit... Which includes instructions and parts.
Sounds good? Well, once you finish assembling your first batch of crafts, you'll be
told by the company that they "don't meet our specifications."
In fact, even if you were a robot and did it perfectly, it would be impossible for you
to meet their specifications. The scammer company is making money selling the
starter kits - not selling the assembled product. So, you're left with a set of
assembled crafts... and no one to sell them to.
9. Medical Billing:
In this scam, you pay $300-$900 for everything (supposedly) you need to
start your own medical billing service at home. You're promised
state-of-the-art medical billing software, as well as a list of potential clients in
your area.
What you're not told is that most medical clinics process their own bills, or
out source the processing to firms, not individuals. Your software may not
meet their specifications, and often the lists of "potential clients" are
outdated or just plain wrong.
As usual, trying to get a refund from the medical billing company is like
trying to get blood from a stone.
8. Email Processing:
This is a twist on the classic "envelope stuffing scam" (See #1 below). For a
low price ($50?) you can become a "highly-paid" email processor working
"from the comfort of your own home."
Now... what do you suppose an email processor does? If you have visions
of forwarding or editing email's, forget it. What you get for your money are
instructions on spamming the same ad you responded to in newsgroup's
and Web forums!
Think about it - they offer to pay you $25 per email processed - would any
legitimate company pay that?
7. "A List of Companies looking for Homeworker's!"
In this one, you pay a small fee for a list of companies looking for
homeworker's just like you.
The only problem is that the list mis usually a generic list of companies,
companies that don't take homeworker's, or companies that may have
accepted homeworker's long, long ago. Don't expect to get your money
back from this one.
6. "Just Call This 1-900 Number for More Information..."
No need to spend too much time (or money) on this one. 1-900 numbers
cost money to call, and that's how scammers make their profit.
Save your money -- don't call a 1-900 number for more information about a
supposed work-at-home job.
5. Typing At Home!
If you use the Internet a lot, then odds are that you're probably a good typist.
How better to capitalize on it than making money by typing at home?
Here's how it works: After sending the fee to the scammer for "more
information," you receive a disk and printed information that tells you to
place home typist ads and sell copies of the disk to the suckers who reply to
you. Like #8, this scam tries to turn you into a scammer!
4. "Turn Your Computer Into a Money-Making Machine!"
Well, this one's at least half-true. To be completely true, it should read:
"Turn your computer into a money-making machine... for spammers!"
This is much the same Spam as #5, above. Once you pay your money, you'll
be sent instructions on how to place ads and pull in suckers to "turn their
computers into moneymaking machines."
3. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)!
If you've heard of network marketing (like Amway), then you know that there
are legitimate MLM businesses based on agents selling products or
services.
One big problem with MLM's, though, is when the pyramid and the
ladder-climbing become more important than selling the actual product or
services.
If the MLM business opportunity is all about finding new recruits rather than
selling products or services, beware: The Federal Trade Commission may
consider it to be a pyramid scheme... and not only can you lose all your
money, but you can be charged with fraud, too!
We saw an interesting MLM scam recently: One MLM company advertised
the product whey were selling as FREE. The fine print, however, states that
it is "free in the sense that you could be earning commissions and bonuses
in excess of the cost of your monthly purchase of the product. Does that
sound like free to you?
2. Chain Letters/Emails ("Make Money Fast"):
If you've been on the Internet for any length of time, you've probably
received or at least seen these chain email's. They promise that all you have
to do is send the email along plus some money by mail to the top names on
the list, then add your name to the bottom... and one day you'll be a
millionaire.
Actually, the only thing you might be one day is prosecuted for fraud. This
is a classic pyramid scheme, and most times the names in the chain email's
are manipulated to make sure only the people at the top of the list (the true
scammers) make any money.
This scam should be called "Lose Money Fast" - and it's illegal.
1. Envelope Stuffing:
This is THE CLASSIC WORK-AT-HOME scam. It's been around since the
U.S. Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, and it's moved onto the Internet
like a cockroach you just can't eliminate.
There are several variations, but here's a sample: Much like #5 and #4
above, you are promised to be paid $1-2 for every envelope you stuff. All
you have to do is send money and you're guaranteed "up to 1,000
envelopes a week that you can stuff... with postage and address already
affixed!"
When you send your money, you get a short manual with flyer template
you're supposed to put up around town, advertising yet another
harebrained work-from-home scheme.
And the pre-addressed, pre-paid envelopes? Well, when people see those
flyers, all they have to do is send you $2.00 in a pre-addressed, pre-paid
envelope. Then you stuff that envelope with another flyer and send it to
them.
Ingenious perhaps... but certainly illegal and unethical.
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We hope the above ten (10) scam warnings help you to avoid
these and other types of Scams. A Word To The Wise: "Let the
Buyer and/or the Consumer Beware!!!"
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